Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of

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, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver. He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the

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altar (1502). He returned to Augsburg in 1502, where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice, in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15. After his death in 1537, his son, Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.

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Jörg Breu the Elder
at the J. Paul Getty Museum 1470s births 1537 deaths 15th-century German painters German male painters 16th-century German painters German Renaissance painters Artists from Augsburg Painters from Bavaria {{Germany-painter-stub